Cryptic Messages at startup tonight

[Eric "Shubes"]

Dazed_75 wrote:
> These showed up tonight upon booting into Ubuntu 6.10 (I have disabled
> the silent splash exactly so I get a clue occasionally when something
> unexpected happens.  These were extracted from /var/log/syslog BTW and
> there were pages and pages of them.  Anyone have a clue what thewy mean
> or why they are present?
> 
> Mar  8 08:15:54 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> 'ATTRS{idVendor}'
> Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> 'ATTRS{idProduct}'
> Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> 'ATTRS{idVendor}'
> Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> 'ATTRS{idProduct}'
> Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> 'ATTRS{idVendor}'
> Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> 'ATTRS{idProduct}'
> etc ...
> 
> -- 

Cryptic? I'm surprised that these don't look a bit familiar to you by now.
;) They're pretty much standard log messages. udevd[2298] is the name and
pid of the process that generated the message. udevd is the udev daemon.
add_to_rules appears to be a function of udevd, unknown key is the error
identifier, and ATTRS{id...} is the specific instance that caused the error.